For those keeping track — and there are many, as the investigations and recriminations into its borked IPO continue — the shares of Facebook moved strongly upward this week. The stock of the social networking site closed at $33.05 on Friday, up almost four percent. For the week, the shares rose 10 percent. There could be a number of reasons for the gains, including progress on its long-expected advertising network with an appearance on Zynga this week . Zynga — whose stock has been closely aligned with Facebook’s due to its strong partnership — was also up this week by close to five percent. Still, the online gaming company’s shares are down almost 37 percent since its IPO in December. And Facebook’s stock is still 13 percent below its public offering price in May, when it debuted at a hefty $38 per share. But the latest prices are better than the lows of about $25.50 that that the Silicon Valley company has traded at so far in its very short public life. The company is now worth almost $71 billion, which is one-third lower than its much-hyped $100 million valuation. The next real signals for investors will be when Facebook releases its second-quarter earnings sometime in late July. There is still no news of when that will be on Facebook’s spartan investor relations Web page .

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